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Local sports radio in Cedar Rapids got a lot less local this week.

KGYM-1600 ESPN has dropped a pair of long-running sports talk shows that originated from its studio. The Todd Brommelkamp Show and the Gym Class did their last shows this week.

Brommelkamp had been an on-air personality at KGYM for 14 years. His show most recently had aired from 6:30 to 9 a.m.

“I was fortunate enough to be in a place where I was allowed to do the format the way I wanted, how I wanted.” Brommelkamp said. “Not everyone enjoyed my approach, but the people who did are missing something today, and that’s unfortunate.”

The Gym Class, which aired from 3 to 4 p.m., originated in 2006 with Scott Unash and Mark Dukes,

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